About Jörn Dinkla

Novels

• Jeff VanderMeer: Annihilation
• Liu Cixin: The Three-Body Problem
• Dashiell Hammett: Red Harvest

Games

The following games i played in 2020 the most:

• Assassin's Creed Valhalla
• Borderlands 3
• Cyberpunk 2077

I also enjoyed Dark Nights with Poe and Munro and Disco Elysium.

Films and movies

• A Scanner Darkly
• The Big Lebowski
• What's Up, Doc?

Music

• Bassnectar
• Charles Mingus
• Primus

Art

• Paul Klee
• Robert Delaunay
• Lyonel Feininger

Meditation and yoga

I meditate daily since 2016 when i started with headspace. Since 2020 I also practice Yin yoga.

Complex systems

Creating complex systems is easy. Understanding them is not!

Consciousness

What is consciousness? How is it produced? Can be be build artificially with AI?

Technical development and the singularity

The technical development is getting faster. What are the inventions of the future? Is there a limit to progress?

Acting rational - "Reasoning"

What is rational behaviour? Can one teach it to computers? Are humans rational? Always? If humans are not can they learn it?

Rendering

Computer graphics made unbelieveable progress.

Residences

I lived in the following cities:

• 10/1969 to 08/1991: Emden in East Frisia.
• 09/1991 to 12/1998: Cologne
• 01/1999 to 09/2000: Karlsruhe in Southern Germany.
• 10/2000 to 02/2001: Schanzenviertel in Hamburg
• Since 03/2001 i am living in Winterhude in Hamburg